SAMO4PREZ- ARTIST

Impatient raging.

samo4prez — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:36:45 +0000

So, there are specific days that jump out at me every now and then where emotions seem uncontrolable. Days where the only refuge is found in a blank canvas, paint and brushes. Well, today is one of those days and escaping to my place of solice is just out of reach. I have returned to Austin, TX (home) after being on the road for an extended time and I won’t have a space for 3 more weeks. I could feel everything building from the moment my eyes opened and my head lifted from my pillow, I tried to fight it and distance myself from the impatient rage building inside. After 36 years I should realize that I can’t hide from who I am or how I was created. So I went to find a quiet place to write, listen and be. At least until I can calm down, relax and exit a few tears and thoughts.

Makoto Fujimura

Here is the music that is filling or drowning out every other sound around me into oblivion:

Active Child: You Are All I See, Curtis Lane

James Vincent McMorrow: Early In The Morning

Nathaniel Ratliff: In Memory of Loss

Wise Children: Absince & Reunion

Ugly Casanova: 180 South Soundtrack

Timber Timbre: Creep on Creepin’ On

City and Colour: Little Hell

Sbtrkt: SBTRKT

The Jezabels: Dark Storm, She’s So Hard, The Man Is Dead

Video- painting- video- painting

samo4prez — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:59:47 +0000

This is a short video of me working on one of my last pieces.

The spoken word piece I wrote, recorded, edited and produced in 2007.

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I can not be plural.

samo4prez — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:08:57 +0000

Nervously I confiscate beats in this propaganda’d mind
that rests on a twisting pole fastened atop burdened shoulders,
weight, fracture, melody, drum, kick, flow,
movements ease past breakpoints and stare passed misty eyes and
malnutritioned passions,
mouth off to air if you think it helps,
conceited; you look like everyone else to me,
judgmental jewels around your wrist neck
that holds your small head in minimal thought patterns,
daylight and missed steps draw upon cracks in the
sidewalk,
how’s her back doing these days, anyway?
resting cases in juried sheets that the cold holds dear
as the body shivers from entering,
this sums it all up,
5+ worry and 18x alright doesn’t get us numerically closer in any respect,
lead me on towards winters chill and the moons soft mist,
because clinging to dusty walls only begs of handshakes
that fall flat and stiff,
for, I am the one sitting and writing in the early AM,
borrowing time from the early arrival of the sun, the light,
fingers weary, yet, thoughts vomiting in type,
iridescent bulbs flicker and annoy,
but I am just one,
in the singular, boy…
SAMO4PREZ 2009

New-ness

samo4prez — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:52:34 +0000

Here are a few photos of a new piece I am working on,

Undiscovered territory

Materials

The First Layer

Layers of Color

In the Studio with Debbie Harry

samo4prez — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:36:40 +0000

I have had a ton of feedback and interest in my latest piece, so I put together a short film from my studio time creating it.

New Video

samo4prez — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:49:08 +0000

Here is a video I recently created for my Fashion Company. All of the footage was filmed on a Canon 5D on our 2010 Road Tour, this year I will be touring the country for 8 months with my Art and Fashion line, so I hope to see you on the road. The footage was edited in Final Cut.

New Paintings

samo4prez — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:50:53 +0000

Here are some images of work done in the last few months. You can view more on my personal website at http://www.samo4prez.com or on my Etsy page at http://www.etsy.com/shop/samo4prez

8 April 1973 | 36×48 | $3000

Pablo | 24x48 | $1500

Folsom | 24x36 | SOLD

Stories | 10.75x19.75 | $350

Born in Brooklyn | 24x24 | $500

Born in Ixelles, Belgium | 24x24 | $500

Era | 24x36 | $800

Ode to William | 24x30 | $800

Johnny | 24x30 | Sold

Travel'n Light | 24x36 | $800

Ate Bill Lee for Lunch | 48x24 | $1500

Film Short- Poetry

samo4prez — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:20:25 +0000

Well, it has been pretty damn freezing here in North Texas this last week! I feel like I am back home in the Sierra Nevada’s except I am not. I sold a few paintings this week, so I am on a high despite not being able to go out and brave the bitter chill in my studio, known as Jeremy’s garage. I have been on a mental explosion of creative thought during this “freeze” so it has been frustrating not being able to paint. I have done quite a bit of design, video and forecasting for my fashion line “Veritas” but my creative thirst has been unable to be quenched the last few days, which means me staying up until 3 or 4am writing out ideas (in my idea journal) or watching foreign films. Early this morning at about 12:15am I looked out the window (I had been waiting the entire night previous for snow flakes to fall) and snow was pouring from the sky, so I ran outside to play after screaming “THE SNOW IS HERE! IT IS HERE!” in the house scaring our roommates half to death. I took my little Flip cam and recorded some small clips to go with a poem I wrote the night before. I didn’t write much poetry in 2010 due to finishing my first novel and starting a second. I needed to keep feeding my creative fire so I decided to put together a little spoken word piece. I also haven’t created any music in the last few years, so i figured it is a perfect time to create sound as well. Anyways, here is the finished project. A little sloppy. But that is how I like things anyways, imperfect, blemished, and raw. I hope you enjoy it.

Sacrament of Winter
Heavy sounds ring like madness in the still
while the chill of ice on wind is felt upon
fingertips & slow breathing,

steam from the cup filled warmth
sings mighty in in the vast winter eve

pen remembers paper and thoughts forget names and faces,
long gone, they are long gone,

the street lamp rests alone on the corner with frozen liquid between
the steels ridges and cracks
like ones identity wrapped up in design and flaw,
its only february,
the second step for a new year

unwind, unwind and fall into moments of literary depth
from shelves of old
listening to stories from generations of grandfathered words,
rest by the fire as flames speak of all that is good and passed onward,

this is time stood still
this is the sacrament of reconciling what once was
and still could be.
SAMO4PREZ

Album Design

samo4prez — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:32:10 +0000

A few nights ago I got an email from Nate Navarro the founder of Austin non-profit “Music for the City” reading;

“Ty meet Matt. Matt meet Ty.

Ty, Mr. McCloskey is doing a cool art project for his album release

and is looking for a cool artist……I think yall should talk!”

I hit Matt up that minute and he shared his idea of using local Austin artists in a collaborative effort to go along with his new album release. Matt’s idea was brilliant, feature and Artist a day that coincides with a song available for free download. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Today features my piece along the the free download of the song ” You’ve still got me.” Here is the artwork, that when I return from the Veritas Road Tour V.2 will be painting on a 8×8 foot canvas. Here is the link to Matt McCloskey’s website and free downloads: www.listentomatt.com

"You've Still Got Me"

New Stuff that might blow your mind:

samo4prez — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:31:23 +0000

Yesterday I not only got pictures from Austin Nichols and Sophia Bush wearing the shirt I designed for their personal Gulf Cleanup efforts, I also got the opportunity to film one of the Veritas Artist Collective musicians “Jonathan Combs” outside of Crater Lake Oregon at sunset. Insane day, I need to paint. Be prepared Wednesday as well for the Artwork I created for Matt McCloskey’s album release. (www.listentomatt.com) You can purchase a shirt from the Veritas website for 38.00$ with 15.00$ of your purchase supporting Gulf Clean up efforts: www.liveveritas.com

Austin and Sophia..SAMO4PREZ original and Design

Jonathan Combs at Crater Lake, OR